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Welcome to DNA Policy - Net
DNA and the Criminal Justice System is a Harvard-based project to create a forum for the exchange of views and information among those interested in this area. Its aim is to assist these individuals and institutions in managing the challenges that the use of DNA in the criminal justice system pose. This project is co-ordinated by Prof. David Lazer through the The Program on Networked Governance (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and is funded by the NSF Grant No. 0131923.
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News Feature :: [click to pause / resume]Justices Reject Inmate Right to DNA Tests (NYT, June 18,2009)
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON - Prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing that might prove their innocence, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 5-to-4 decision. The court divided along familiar ideological lines, with the majority emphasizing that 46 states already have laws that allow at least some prisoners to gain access to DNA evidence.
"To suddenly constitutionalize this area," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority, "would short-circuit what looks to be a prompt and considered legislative response."
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News Feature :: [click to pause / resume]DNA going untested in cases throughout L.A. County (LA Times, March 31,2009)A report on 47 smaller police agencies finds them having the same evidence analysis problems as the LAPD and Sheriff's Department, with 2,750 rape kits sitting untested.
By Joel Rubin
Dozens of police departments throughout Los Angeles County routinely have not tested DNA evidence collected in rape and sexual assault cases, and are unable to accurately account for thousands of pieces of evidence that could potentially help solve crimes, according to a report to be released today.
The county's two behemoth law enforcement agencies -- the Los Angeles more...
News Feature :: [click to pause / resume]'DNA bungle' haunts German police (BBC News, 2009/03/28)Police in Germany have admitted that a woman they have been hunting for more than 15 years never in fact existed.
Dubbed the "phantom of Heilbronn", the woman was described by police as the country's most dangerous woman.
Investigators had connected her to six murders and an unsolved death based on DNA traces found at the scene.
Police now acknowledge swabs used to collect DNA samples were contaminated by an innocent woman working in a factory in Bavaria.
'Serial killer'
Police suspected the unnamed woman of being a serial killer who over 16 more...
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DNA going untested in cases throughout L.A. County (LA Times, March 31,2009)
A report on 47 smaller police agencies finds them having the same evidence analysis problems as the LAPD and Sheriff's Department, with 2,750 rape kits sitting untested.
By Joel Rubin
Dozens of police departments throughout Los Angeles County routinely have not tested DNA evidence collected in rape and sexual assault cases, and are unable to accurately account for thousands of pieces of evidence that could potentially help solve crimes, according to a report to be released today.
The county's two behemoth law enforcement agencies -- the Los Angeles more...
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